Letter to the Editor: Branstad plan amounts to triple taxation

Let me get this straight: The governor wants Iowans to pay federal taxes that cover expanded Medicare for every state that participates, then turn around and use state taxes to cover 40 percent of the cost of his health care plan and ask the counties to continue paying for mental health care with property taxes?

That is triple taxation. Wow, what a plan.

-Kathi Stanfield, Indianola

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Letter to the Editor: Branstad plan amounts to triple taxation

Let me get this straight: The governor wants Iowans to pay federal taxes that cover expanded Medicare for every state that participates, then turn around and use state taxes to cover 40 percent of